Afer having saved for years the Clarke family were finally in a posifion lo see their dream come true. They
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start a new life
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ready to travel from Scotland to
Americo.
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The family were very excited about their
by ship across the
Atlantic. However, just days beforo their departure, one of their sons was bitten by a dog. Their plans fell through when they were told they.
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not
be oble to travel because of the possibility.
boy could have rabies.
The family were devastated and the father went to the docks to watch the ship that he had hoped would_
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them to their new life depart. As he
stood on the harbour thinking about his son, he watched the ship and wondered H the family would ever get to make the journey.
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, soon after this disappointment the father discovered how fortunate the family had been. The son did not have rabies and a few days later the news come that the ship the Clarke family should have been on had sunk. The Titanic had gone down with hundreds of people losing their lives.